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Rachell Smith
Emma D’ArcyandOlivia Cookeare here to slay… looks, not each other.
Who is she if she can’t be the person to implement wisdom?
Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke for Entertainment Weekly’s ‘House of the Dragon’ season 2.Credit:Rachell Smith
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Stunnin'
The chemistry between D’Arcy and Cooke is what givesHouse of the Dragonits flavor.
I did hate it for a very long time," Cooke admits to EW.
Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke for EW’s ‘House of the Dragon’ cover shoot.Rachell Smith
“I was in the pub.
A woman opened the door for me and she said with a thick Spanish accent, Stunnin!
I was just like, Oh my God.
Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke for EW’s ‘House of the Dragon’ cover shoot.Rachell Smith
Over a decade’s worth of work reduced to a single word in my lexicon.'”
D’Arcy and Cooke rep their respective colors.
It’s really interesting to think about because women do disappear from historical narratives.
Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy for EW’s ‘House of the Dragon’ cover shoot.Rachell Smith
Rhaenyra is a person devastated.
Shes rigid with grief, D’Arcy says.
Grief can be a really dislocating force.
Emma D’Arcy for EW’s ‘House of the Dragon’ season 2 cover shoot.Rachell Smith
“It is on my radar.
We can see it now.
The runway challenge: Targaryen realness.
Emma D’Arcy for EW’s ‘House of the Dragon’ cover shoot.Rachell Smith
Cooke-ing with gas
Cooke never saw Alicent Hightower as a villain, despite what audiences might think.
“She is such a product of her circumstance,” the actor says.
“She has been groomed to be this immaculate chess player within the game of thrones.
Olivia Cooke for EW’s ‘House of the Dragon’ cover shoot.Rachell Smith
So I just felt, how else would she be?
There’s no way that she could have grown up to have a gooey center.
There’s something that’s been cauterized along the way in order for this stalwart sense of duty.
Olivia Cooke for EW’s ‘House of the Dragon’ cover shoot.Rachell Smith
I just have this huge amount of empathy for that because it’s no life at all.
Her life was never hers to lead.”
“We only had one day together, but it was really nice,” Cooke recalls.
Rhaenyra in ‘House of the Dragon’ season 2.Theo Whitman/HBO
“He’s such a lovely man, and we didn’t really talk about it.
He had not seen [House of the Dragon].
I was like, ‘That’s fine.’
Olivia Cooke’s Alicent Hightower, Ewan Mitchell’s Aemond Targaryen in ‘House of the Dragon’ season 2.Theo Whitman/HBO
At least not for Aegon.
Preparing for war
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look atHouse of the Dragonco-creator Ryan Condal.
Season 2 is the march to war, he says.
Tom Glynn-Carney as Aegon II Targaryen in ‘House of the Dragon’.Ollie Upton/HBO
Read of the Dragonseason 2 inEW’s Summer TV Preview cover story.
Jacaerys Velaryon (Harry Collett) meets with Cregan Stark (Tom Taylor) in ‘House of the Dragon’ season 2.Ollie Upton/HBO
Abubakar Salim as Alyn of Hull, Steve Toussaint as Corlys Velaryon in ‘House of the Dragon’ season 2.Ollie Upton/HBO
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